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Miscellanea Curiosa, 3 vol. 8vo.Miscellanea curiosa (London: James and John Knapton, 1723-1727)

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

October 1781

Primary Source Reference:

Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 11 (Miscellany); Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 60r

Notes:

Listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue; Du Simitière purchased this work at the sale of the library of William Byrd of Westover. Edwin Wolf 2nd, "The Dispersal of the Library of William Byrd of Westover," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 68 (1958): 26n

Valued at 2s in Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 4

Title Information:

Miscellanea curiosa

Imprint Information:

London: James and John Knapton, 1723-1727.

Repository:

LCP, call no. Per M 114:1726 652.O